I joined the legion before I knew joining the Stormcloaks was even an option. I would have followed the Stormcloak guy out of the first city if I had even noticed I could.
But, if it were an option, I would either be sort of a mercenary, doing work for both sides just for the money, or just stay out of it entirely. I don't like either of their goals.

Same with the Forsworn Vs Silver-Bloods. I don't like the Silver-Bloods, and would fully support the Forsworn if it weren't for the whole "Some Nords are bad therefore all Nords must die" thing.

Also, has anyone else been getting these letters from "A Friend" telling you where new shouts are?
I just did the third one, which I figured would be the last one until it broke the Animal Allegiance theme. So I guess there will be more if I keep shouting at things. I'm also wondering how this stalker knows where I'm at constantly. The first letter I got was because I was shouting in my own home, and I assumed my housecarl was sending me anonymous letters for some reason.
Then I got a letter for shouting in Solitude, then for shouting in some random fort. So I guess it's just some creep following me everywhere I go.

I've got dragon bodies piling up in Solitude. Two dead frost dragons and a dead blood dragon that refuse to despawn. The first frost dragon killed Octieve San :(. I liked him and his drunken antics. I even reloaded the game and fought that dragon about 10 times, but it's like it had something against him, cause it killed the fuck out of him every single time, and sometimes it killed his daughter too. Nobody else in the town got killed except Octieve and Evette, aside from a stray guard or two.

I got a new mask, now I have Krosis and Osomething, I don't even remember the name. I know it boosts your resistance to fire, ice, and lightning. I also got a staff from the new mask guy that electrifies the ground, and I can basically make a force field around myself.

Still don't even know how to get married. I just know you have to talk to some priest guy or something. I rarely even go into the churches. But there's really nobody I want to marry anyway, so whatever.

I'm becoming fond of forcing weak bandits to yield and then cutting their heads off. That's pretty fun. I find it very odd that the head is always like 10 times harder to lift than the entire body is, even if the body has the head attached.

Has anyone else ever killed a dragon and not been able to steal its soul? I hunted one down as a bounty and I never got its soul afterward.

At 11/20/11 06:32 PM, Squidbit wrote:
I got a new mask, now I have Krosis and Osomething, I don't even remember the name. I know it boosts your resistance to fire, ice, and lightning. I also got a staff from the new mask guy that electrifies the ground, and I can basically make a force field around myself.

I have three. Volsung (my favorite so far as it increases the amount you can carry and it counts as light armor), Otar (heavy armor that increases resistance to fire, shock, and ice), and Morokei which I find completely useless compared to the other two (magicka regenerates faster). I've only ever found them while following the advice in the letters from "a friend". I'm starting to wonder if there's a way to combine them all into one super mask like with the amulet of Gouldur.

Still don't even know how to get married. I just know you have to talk to some priest guy or something. I rarely even go into the churches. But there's really nobody I want to marry anyway, so whatever.

You need to be wearing an amulet of Mara and be talking to someone who likes you.

Went to Solitude to test out the fireball spell I finally bought on some guards because that's how I judge weapons, realized I could actually do significant damage, ran around the city again and again shooting fireballs into crowds of guards, managed to actually kill them all, got arrested because I wanted to see my bounty, ended up just going to jail, broke out of my cell and killed the guards with an axe I found, broke out, ran out of the city and to the docks, blood dragon came out of nowhere and fucked up the shit of everyone chasing me, naturally escaped out into some swamps and lol'd.

At 11/20/11 06:58 PM, djack wrote:
Has anyone else ever killed a dragon and not been able to steal its soul? I hunted one down as a bounty and I never got its soul afterward.

this bug has happened to me twice, surprisingly. once, where i killed the dragon and it just didn't absorb for some reason. the second, a bear came killed the dragon so i assumed that bear was also dovahkiin.

I'm starting to wonder if there's a way to combine them all into one super mask like with the amulet of Gouldur.

Yo, I thought everyone would prefer the Stormcloak rebels over the Imperials but frankly in my area I seem to be one of the lone choosers of that side. Everyone I know that owns the game prefers defending towns and picking Imperials than invading towns and helping the Stormcloaks rise to victory.

I've lost count of how many times a guard has told me "I used to be an adventurer like you, until I took an arrow to the knee." Seriously, there must just be some dude camping out in the woods who shoots every adventurer he sees in the knee, then directs them to the nearest guard outpost.

Smithing has come to be one of the most valuable skills in the game for me. You can greatly improve your damage output and defensive skill by smithing. I have little doubt that the effects of my smithing have saved my life many times.

At 11/20/11 06:58 PM, djack wrote:
Has anyone else ever killed a dragon and not been able to steal its soul? I hunted one down as a bounty and I never got its soul afterward.

this bug has happened to me twice, surprisingly. once, where i killed the dragon and it just didn't absorb for some reason. the second, a bear came killed the dragon so i assumed that bear was also dovahkiin.

I'm starting to wonder if there's a way to combine them all into one super mask like with the amulet of Gouldur.

yeah there is, mang

Now I have to hunt them down obsessivelly until I possess all of them, along with statues of Dibella and the dragon claws made of various materials.

So has anyone else done the Hall of the Dead quest in Markarth?
I knew that was a pretty bad town, but holy shit, I didn't think it was that bad. Now I'm glad I didn't keep that dog. I'm also glad I don't buy food.

At 11/20/11 05:42 PM, idiot-monarch wrote:
You do realize that the Stromcloaks are basically Nazis, right? They're fighting not only for the independence of Skyrim, but to rid the province of non-Nords.

I joined the Stormcloaks as a Breton.
The Imperials/Thalmor want to ban Talos worship. Either way, it's black or black.

So I just borrowed Oblivion from a friend, and I'm really having a lot of trouble getting into it. I'm currently trying to close the first gate of Oblivion, and I'm in the tower. But regardless, I'm not having a whole lot of fun. I'm trying really hard to enjoy it as much as everybody else did, but I'm having issues.

At 11/20/11 09:48 PM, WeHaveFreshCookies wrote:
So I just borrowed Oblivion from a friend, and I'm really having a lot of trouble getting into it. I'm currently trying to close the first gate of Oblivion, and I'm in the tower. But regardless, I'm not having a whole lot of fun. I'm trying really hard to enjoy it as much as everybody else did, but I'm having issues.

So my question: Should I get Skyrim if I don't really like Oblivion?

Skyrim is a huge jump from Oblivion. Personally, I enjoyed Oblivion, but I like Skyrim a lot more. I have friends who didn't like Oblivion and love Skyrim. So, yeah, you should get it.

So far the only things I miss from Oblivion are Shivering Isles and the excellent scenery with the Imperial City. That's not saying the scenery in Skyrim is bad but it's missing that excellent view where you can spot one monumental city from many locations. What I certainly don't miss from Oblivion is the level scaling they had. That really fucked me up a few times. If I go back to Oblivion, I will realise how outdated the graphics look and how goofy looking some of the characters are now.

My follower Onmund decided to become a pacifist apparently, because even if I send him back to the college and then go tell him to follow me again, he still won't fight. So I've just been using him as a pack mule to carry all my heavy loot.

I'll be honest, I wasn't going to get Skyrim, but I've been watching a few Skyrim videos on YouTube and it looks pretty frigging amazing. I've gotten back into Oblivion just so I can get Skyrim after I beat it :)

At 11/21/11 05:27 AM, Bahamut wrote:
So far the only things I miss from Oblivion are Shivering Isles and the excellent scenery with the Imperial City. That's not saying the scenery in Skyrim is bad but it's missing that excellent view where you can spot one monumental city from many locations. What I certainly don't miss from Oblivion is the level scaling they had. That really fucked me up a few times. If I go back to Oblivion, I will realise how outdated the graphics look and how goofy looking some of the characters are now.

Oblivion has some fun moments and it was one of my favorite games of all time until I got Skyrim. Ugh, remember the freaking menus in Oblivion? It was a disaster. Oh well, Oblivion had some cool quest that I wish they would have re-imagined.